Farmers on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri reserve are worried that they would be uprooted permanently without due process following the destruction of some of their crops by the contractor for the expansion project.
“Without any notice the Chinese people (employees of China Harbour and Engineering Corporation) come with dey machines Friday and just start to grade down all our stuff… eddoes, all them bearing coconut trees, sour sop, sweet potatoes, cassava, papaw, cherry, de pear everything,” Royston Holder, a farmer who plants on the reserve told Stabroek News on Tuesday.
However, the CJIA and the Public Works Ministry have in the past said that several notices have been issued to the
